In the 2019/20 Champions League semi-finals, two French teams (PSG, Lyon) and two German teams (SB Leipzig, Bayern) will compete for a place in the final.

On August 18, Leipzig will meet PSG, on the 19th, Lyon will face Bayern Munich. We tell interesting facts about the semi-final of the current tournament.

BOOKMEKERS 'BETS ON THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINALS For the first time since 2012/13, only two different countries are represented at this stage.

For the first time since the 1995/96 season, no English or Spanish team will be represented in the Champions League semi-finals.

This Champions League campaign will be the first since 2005/06 that neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo will reach even the semi-finals.

With four English teams reaching the 2019 Champions League / Europa League final, none of the English teams will compete in this season's European final for the first time since 2014/2015.

No German team, apart from Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, has reached the Champions League semi-finals since Schalke in 2010/11. Now Leipzig also did it.

PSG reached the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since the 1994/95 season, when the Parisians did so under Luis Fernandez.

The Champions League final will take place on Sunday, August 23, at 22:00 Kyiv time.

This season, due to the coronavirus pandemic, starting from the quarterfinals, the tournament is held in the format of the Final Eight: the confrontations consist of one match.